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AACT Automated Air Cushion Transporter

ac Alternating current
ACB Auxiliary Cold Box
ACL Acceptance criteria listing
ACWP actual cost of work performed
ADS atmospheric detritiation system
AE Acquisition Executive
AHJ authority having jurisdiction
AIF Agency ITER France
AISI American Iron and Steel Institute
ALARA as low as reasonably achievable
ALD associate laboratory director
ANDRA Agence Nationale pour la Gestion de Dechets Radioactifs (radioactive waste)
ANS American Nuclear Society
ANSI American National Standards Institute, Inc.
AP Assembly Plan and Procedures
APP Advance Procurement Plan
AS Acquisition Strategy
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASN Authorité de Securité Nationale
ASQ American Society for Quality
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
AWS American Welding Society
BA budget authority
BAC budget at completion
BAFO best and final offer
BBT Breeding blanket testing
BCP baseline change proposal
BCR Business Clearance Request
BCWP budgeted cost of work performed
BCWS budgeted cost of work scheduled
BESAC Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee
BHP Biological hazard potential
BJTP Visiting Home Team Personnel
BLK Blanket
BO budget outlay
BOA basic ordering agreement
BOD beneficial occupancy date
BOP Balance of plant
BOS Baking Operation State

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BSM Blanket Shield Module

BV Bethel Valley Road
CAD computer-assisted design
CAE computer-assisted engineering
CAM computer-assisted manufacturing
CAR Cost Analysis Report
CATIA Computer-graphics Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application (CAD
software)
CC Correction coils
CCB 1. Configuration Control Board
2. cryostat cold box
CCD charge-coupled device
CCWS Component Cooling Water System
CD 1. critical decision
2. current drive
CDA Conceptual Design Activities
CDD Configuration Definition Data
CDR conceptual design report
CE Contract Engineer
CEA Commissariat a L’Energie Atomique (French Nuclear Regulatory Agency)
CEDB Cost Estimate Database
CEN European Committee for Standardization
CEN European Committee for Standardization
CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research
CFC certified for construction
CFC 1. Carbon fibre component
2. Carbon fibre composite
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CHWS Chilled Water System
CI configuration item
CICC Cable in Conduit Conductor
CMM Cassette Multifunctional Mover
CMP configuration management plan
CN China
CODAC Control & Data Acquisition, and Communication
COP Construction, Commissioning, and Operations Plans
COTS commercial off-the-shelf
CP contact person
CPDS construction project data sheet
CPI cost performance index
CPR cost performance report
CS Central Solenoid

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CSD Control system design and assessment

CSH Control System Design Handbook
CSL Central Support Leg
CSMC Central Solenoid Model Coil
CSTA Cost, Schedule, Technical Assessment
CSTF Codes and Standards Task Force
CSVS Cryogenic Service Vacuum System
CTA coordinated technical activities
CTB Cold Termination Box
CTCB Cryoplant Termination Cox Box
CTE coefficient of thermal expansion
CTL Circular Transmission Line
CTM Cassette Toroidal Mover
CTS Cryostat Thermal Shield
Cu cubic
CV cost variance
CVB Cold Valve Box
CVCS Chemical & Volume Control Systems
CW 1. cold worked (i.e. material property)
2. continuous wave (i.e. radiofrequency wave)
CWS Cooling Water System
CX charge exchange
CXRS Charge Exchange Resonance Spectroscopy
D Deuterium
D&D decontamination and decommissioning
DA domestic agency
DAC 1. Digital to Analogue Converter
2. Derived Air Concentration
DB database
DBA design-basis accident
DBD design background document
DBS Document Breakdown Structure
DC 1. Direct current
2. Divertor Cassette
DCC document control center
DCD design criteria document
DCO Design change order
DCR design change requests
DCS Discharge Control Subsystem
DD 1. Deputy Directors
2. Deuterium-deuterium
DDD design description documents

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DE design
DEGB Double End Guilottine Break
DG Director-General
DGN Director General Nominee
DI Design Integration
Dia Diameter
Diag Diagnostic
DIDO Design Integration-Design Office
DIMP design integration management plan
Disr Disruption
DIU Design Integration Unit
DMS Disruption Mitigation System
DNB Diagnostic Neutral Beam
DO Design Office
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
DP 1. Decommissioning Plan
2. Divertor Port
DRFC Départment de Recherches. Sur la Fusion Contrôlée
DRG design requirements and guidelines
DRN Design Review Notice
DS dispersion strengthened
DT deuterium-tritium
DV Divertor
DW Dead Weight
Dwg Drawing
DWO design work order
DWS Detailed WBS Schedule
E&S Equipment and Systems
EAC estimate at completion
EAGGF European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
EB electron beam
EC 1. Electron cyclotron
2. European Commission
EC European Commission
ECCD electron cyclotron current drive
ECE Electron cyclotron emission
ECH electron cyclotron heating
ECM electrochemical machining
ECN engineering change notice
ECRH Electron cyclotron resonance heating
ECW electron cyclotron wave
ED Equatorial Port Duct

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EDA engineering design activities

EDH Electrical Design Handbook
EDI engineering, design, and inspection
EDIA engineering, design, inspection, and administration
EDS Exhaust Detritiation System
EFCC Error Field Correction Coils
EFDA European Fusion Development Agreement
EFET European Fusion Engineering & Technology
EICWS Early Installation of Cooling Water System Pipes
EIS environmental impact statement
EISS European ITER site studies
EL elevation
ELE European Legal Entity
ELM edge localized mode
ELONG Elongation/Elongated
EM Electromagnetic
EMF Electo-Motive Force
EMI/RFI electromagnetic interference/radio-frequency interference
EMS Environment Monitoring System
ENOVIA CAD database software
EO executive order
EOB end of burn
EOC end of cooling
EP Equatorial Port
EPD Equipment Portal Duct
EPP Equatorial Port Plug
EPS European Physics Society
ERDF European Regional Development Fund
ES&H environment, safety, and health
ESCC Equipment and Systems Catalog Coordinator
ESF European Social Funds
ESPN Equipment Sous Pression Nucleaire (French Order on Nuclear Pressure
Equipment)
ETC 1. estimate to complete
2. estimated total cost
EU 1. European Union
2. Europe
EUPT European Union Planning Team
EV earned value
EVMS Earned Value Management System
FAIT fabrication, assembly, installation, and test
FDDI fiber-distributed data interface

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FDR 1. final design report

2. final design review
FDRS Final Design Report Summary
FE Finite Element
FEA Finite Element Analysis
FEM finite element model
FFMEA functional failure modes and effects analysis
FIFG Finance Instrument for Fisheries Guidance
FIFO first in, first out
FMEA failure modes and effects analysis
FODO focus/defocus
FPSS Fusion Power Shutdown System
FR Financial response
FRP fiber-reinforced polymer
FSAD final safety assessment document
FSAR final safety analysis report
FT field team
FTE full-time equivalent
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FUV Far Ultra Violet
FW First Wall
FWCD First wall current drive
FY fiscal year
g/s gallons per second
GDC Glow Discharge Cleaning
GDP Gross domestic product
GDS Gas Detritiation System
GIF Graphics Interchange Format – image file format
GIS 1. Gas Injection (Introduction) System
2. Geological Information System
GL 1. Ground Level
2. Group Leader
GPB General Project Board
gpm gallons per minute
GSA Generative Structural Analysis
GSI Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung
GSS Gas Supply System
GSSR Generic Site Safety Report
GVB Gas Valve Box
H Normal Hydrogen (or protium)
H– hydrogen ion with a negative charge

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H-L Transition Transition from High confinement (H) to Low confinement (L).
H&CD Heating and Current Drive
H+ hydrogen ion with a positive charge (proton)
H0 neutral hydrogen
HC Hot Cell
HCB Hot Cell Building
HD Hydrogen-Deuterium
He Helium
HEP High Energy Pipe-work
HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air
HFIR High Flux Isotope Reactor
HFS High Field Side
Hg mercury
HH hydrogen-hydrogen
HHF High heat flux
HIB Heavy Ion Beam
HIBD Heavy Ion Beam Diagnostic
HIBP Heavy Ion Beam Probe
HIP Hot Isostatic Pressing
HLW High-level waste
HNB Heating Neutral Beam
HOM higher order mode
HP Health Physics
HQ (DOE) Headquarters
HRNS High Resolution Neutron Spectrometer
HRS Heat Rejection System
HT 1. Home Team
2. High Tension
HTL Home Team Leader
HTML Hyper text markup language
HTO Hydrogen-Tritium Oxide
HTRO Home Team Responsible Officer
HTS 1. High Temperature Superconductor
2. Heat Transfer System
HTTP Hyper text transfer protocol
HV high voltage
HVAC heating, ventilating, and air conditioning
HVDC High Voltage Direct Current
HX Heat exchanger
Hz hertz
I&C Instrumentation and control
I/O 1. in/out

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2. input/output
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IB In Board
IC 1. ITER Council
2. Ion Cyclotron
ICD interface control document
IC-DC Ion Cyclotron Resonance Discharge Cleaning
ICE Ingress of Coolant Event
ICF inertial confinement fusion
ICH Ion Cyclotron Heating
ICHF Incident critical heat flux
ICP ITER Collaborative Platform
ICRF ion cyclotron radio frequency
ICRH ion cyclotron resonance heating
ICRP International Commission on Radiation Protection
ICS Integrated Control System
IDD interface design document
IDM ITER Document Management
IDoMS ITER Document Management System
IEA International Energy Agency
IEC 1. International Electrotechnical Commission
2. International Engineering Consortium
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IFCEN French Association of Design, Cost, and In-service Inspection Rules for
Nuclear Island Components
IIC Interim ITER Council
IIS Inner Intercoil Structure
ILE ITER Legal Entity
ILL Institut Laue-Langevin
IM Initial Premagnitization
IMMS ITER Model Management System
IMP Impurity
IN 1. India
2. Inlet
3. Input
INB Installation Nucleaire de Base/Nuclear Installation
INBD Inboard
INEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
INFN/CEA Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare/Commissariat a L’Energie Atomique
INIRC International Non-Ionizing Radiation Committee
INTOR International Tokamak Reactor
IO ITER Organization

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IO-DA ITER Organization – Domestic Agencies (formerly PTL)

IOC Input-output controller
IOIS Intermediate Outer Intercoil Structure
IPC ITER Preparatory Committee
IPS Integrated project schedule
IPT Integrated Project Team
IR Infra-red
IRP ITER Research Plan
IRSN L’Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire
ISA Instrument Society of America
ISN integrated subproject network
ISO 1. International Standards Organization
2. Isometric
ISS isotope separation system
IT 1. International Team
2. information technology
ITA ITER Transitional Agreement
ITB Internal transport barrier
ITER “The Way” in Latin formerly International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
ITER WP US ITER Work Planning Form
ITER-FEAT The name initially used for the final design of ITER to distinguish it from the
design completed in July 1998. This term is no longer used.
ITPA International Tokamak Physics Activity
IVT In-Vessel Transporter
IVVS In-Vessel Viewing System
IWO Interoffice Work Order
JA Japan
JAERI Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
JAPT Japanese Planning Team
JASS Joint Assessment of Specific Sites
JCT Joint Central Team
JET Joint European Torus
JHPSL Japanese Gas High Pressure Safety Law
JIA Joint Implementation Agreement
JLAB Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
JLE Japanese Legal Entity
JPEG Joint Photographic Expert Group – image format
JWS Joint Work Site
K Kelvin
K/J Knight/Jacobs
KCY thousand cubic yards
KEK National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (Japan)

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KeV kiloelectron volts

KLE Korean Legal Entity
KO Korea
kPa kilopascal
KSTAR Korean Superconductor Tokamak Advanced Reactor
Kv kilovolt
Kw kilowatt
L/s liters per second
LAC Local air coolers
LAN local-area network
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
LARF Laydown, assembly and RF
LBB Leak Before Break
LBNL (LBL) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LCC life cycle cost
LFS Low Field Side
LG long
LH Lower Hybrid
LHC large hadron collider
LHCD Lower Hybrid Current Drive
Lhe liquid helium
Li Lithium
LI Line item
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging (Light equivalent to Radar)
LIM Limiter
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LLPS Low-level Waste Processing System
LLW Low-level waste
LMJ Laser Mega Joule (France)
LN2 Liquid nitrogen
LOCA loss of coolant accident
LOE level of effort
LOFA Loss of Flow Accident
LOFI Loss of flow incident
LOI letter of intent
LOIS Lower Outer Intercoil Structure
LOVA loss-of-vacuum accident
LP Lower port
LPB Local Project Boards
LPD 1. Liquid Penetrate Die-test
2. Lower Port Duct

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LPF Lower Precompression Flange

LPORT Lower Port
LPPS low pressure plasma spray
LPR Lower Precompression Ring
LS load specifications & combination
LTM Long term maintenance
LTS Long-term Tritium Storage System
LV Low Voltage
LWC lost workday cases
M&S materials and services
mA milliampere
MAC Management Advisory Committee
MAG 1. Metal active gas
2. Magnetic
MAINT Maintenance
MAM Manipulator arm
MAMuG Multi Aperture Multi Grid
MAN Manifold
MANUF Manufacture/Manufactured/Manufacturer/Manufacturing
MAR Materials Assessment Report
MARFE Multifaceted Asymmetric Radiation From The Edge of Tokamak Plasmas
MAT Maturity
MATL Material
MAX Maximum
MBH million BTU per hour
MBOM Manufacturing Bill of Materials
MCM thousands circular mill (cable diameter)
MCY million cubic yards
MDS Machine Detritiation System
MECH Mechanical /Mechanism
MeV million electron volts
MEXT Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology (Japan)
MFC Micro Fission Chamber
MgO Magnesia (Magnesium Oxide)
MGS Magnet Gravity Support
MHD Magneto hydro dynamic
MHz Megahertz
MIC Mineral Insulated Cable
MIE Major Item of Equipment
MIG Metal inert gas
MIN Minimum
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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MOA memoranda of agreement

MOD Module
MOFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
MOU memorandum of understanding
MPC maximum permissible concentration
MPCB Magnet Power Conversion Building
MPH Materials Properties Handbook
MPM microgram program manager
MPQ Management and Quality Program
MPR Magnetic Proton Recoil
MPSSN Magnet Power Supply Switching Network
MQP ITER Project Management and Quality Programme
MS 1. Magnet System
2. Millisecond
MSDS material safety data sheet
MSE motional stark effect
MSLD Mass Spectrometer Leak Detector
MSSR milestone schedule and status report
MTBF mean time between failures
MTL Main transmission line
MTTR mean time to repair
MV/m megavolts per million
MVA megavolt amps
MW megawatt
N2 nitrogen
NA Not Available/Not Applicable
NACT Neutron Activation
nA/m nanoamps per meter
NAR Nuclear analysis report
Nb niobium
NB Neutral beam
Nb3Sn Niobium-tin
NBCD neutral beam current drive
NBI neutral beam injection
NBPS Neutron Beam Power Supply
NbTi Niobium Titanium
NDE Non-destructive examination
NDT Non-Destructive Testing
NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NEU 1. Neutron
2. Neutronics

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NFM Neutron Flux Monitor

NFPA National Fire Protection Association
NIF National Ignition Facility (USA)
NIST National Institute for Standards and Technology
NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
NPA Neutral Particle Analyzer
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NRW Non-Radiation Worker
ns nanosecond
NSF National Science Foundation
NSRF National Strategic Reference Framework
NSSR Non-Site Specific Safety Report
NSTX National Spherical Tokamak Experiment, Princeton, USA.
NSTX National Spherical Torus Experiment
NTA Neutron Test Area
NTD Nuclear Technology Division
NTM Neo-classical tearing mode
NTP Normal Temperature and Pressure
NTRC National Transportation Regulatory Commission
N-VDS Normal Vent Detritiation System
OBS Organization Breakdown Structure
OCS Operation Control System
OD outside/outer diameter
ODH oxygen deficiency hazard
OFES Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
OFHC Oxygen Free High Conductivity (copper)
OIS Outer Intercoil Structures
OPC Overall Project Cost
OPS 1. Operations
2. Overall Project Schedule
OPT option
OR Oak Ridge
ORELA Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator
ORLAND Oak Ridge Laboratory for Neutrino Detectors
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORO Oak Ridge Operations
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration/Act
P&E plant and equipment
P&ID Piping and Instrumentation Diagram
PP&RE Project Plan and Resource Estimates
P-ICD Procurement Package Interface Control Documents
PA Procurement Arrangement
PAB Project Advisory Board

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PAC Project Advisory Committee

PACA Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur
PAD Plant Assessment Document / Project Assessment Document
PAM Passive-Active multi-junction
PBD Project Background Documents
PBS Plant Breakdown Structure
PC 1. Poloidal Coil
2. Product Class
3. Personal Computer
PCB polychlorinated biphenyl
PCP Primary Closure Plate
PCR 1. project change request
2. pre-compression ring
PCS 1. Project Control System
2. Plasma Control System
PD 1. Programme Director
2. Plant Description
PDD 1. Plant Description Document
2. Plant Design Description (now obsolete)
PDF Portable Document Format
PDM 1. Product Data Management
2. Project Data Management
PDR preliminary design review
PDS Plant Design Specification
PED 1. Pressure Equipment Directive
2. Photo Electric Detector
PEP project execution plan
PES Programmable Electronic System
PF poloidal field
PFC Plasma Facing Component
PFD 1.Process Flow Diagram
2. probability of failure on demand
PFM Plasma-facing materials
PFN pulse forming network
PFW Primary First Wall (now obsolete)
PG 1. Physics Guidelines
2. Plasma Grid
PHTS Primary Heat Transfer System
PID 1. Project Integration Document
2. Proportional, Differential and Integral Control
3. Process and Instrumentation Diagram
PIE 1. Postulated Initiating Event

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2. Post Irradiation Experiment

PIS Pellet Injection System
PLC programmable logic controller
PMB performance measurement baseline
PME Programme Management Executives
PMP Project Management Plan
PMS Passive Magnetic Shield
PMY professional-man-year
PO Project Office
Pol Polodial
POPCON plasma operation contour
PORT Port
POS Plasma Operation State
PP 1. Procurement Packages
2. Port Plug
PPA Plasma Performance Assessment
PPEN Pulsed Power Electrical Network
PPEP Preliminary Project Execution Plan
PPM professional-person-month
PPPL Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
PPR Procurement Packages refinement
PPS 1. Personnel Protection System
2. pulses per second
PPT Power Point format – Microsoft
PPY professional-person-year
PR Project Requirements and annexes
PRM Process Resource Management
PRM & PS Personal Radiation Monitoring & Protection System
PS 1. power supply
2. project support
3. project specification
PSAD preliminary safety assessment document
PSAR preliminary safety analysis report
PSI Paul Scherrer Institute
PSM Pulse Step Modulator
PSO Princeton Site Office
PSR 1. Plant Safety Requirements
2. Project Safety Requirements
PSS Pressure Suppression System
Pt Platinum

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PT Participant Team
PTL Participant Team Leaders (changed to IO-DA)
PTS Procurement Technical Specification
PVD Physical Vapor Deposition
PW Pipe Work
Q Any Mixture of Hydrogen Isotope (i.e. H, D and/or T)
QA quality assurance
QAM 1. Quality Assurance Manager
2. Quality Assurance Manual
QC quality control
QM quality management
R major plasma radius
R&D research and development
RAD Radiation Hardness Manual
RAM 1. reliability, availability, and maintainability
2. Responsibility Assignment Matrix (WBS-RAM)
RAMI Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Inspectability
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
RDL Resonant Double Loop
REF Reference
REFL Reflectometry
RF Russian Federation
rf/RF radio frequency
RFE ready for equipment
RFH Radio Frequency Heating
RFP request for proposal
RFPT Russian Federation Planning Team
RGA Residual Gas Analyzer
RH remote handling
Rh Rhodium
RHIC Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider
RH-LLW remote-handled low-level waste
RHM Remote Handling Manual
RHP Remote Handling Procedures
RI Recordable injury
RID Residual Ion Dump
RLE Russian Legal Entity
Rms root mean square
RN Recombiner Network

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RO Responsible Officer
ROD record of decision
RPC Reactive Power Compensation
RPM Revolution Per Minute
RPP Radiation protection program
RPrS Raport Préliminaire de Sécurité (Preliminary Safety Report)
RPS Revolution Per Second
RRP Radial Rail Hard Cover Plate
RRR relative resistance ratio / relative resistivity ratio
RT Room temperature
RTDL real-time data link
RTE Reseau de Transport d’Electricite
RTF Rich Text Format – text document
RW Radiation worker
RWM Resistive Wall Mode
RWP radiation work permit
S-ICD System Interface Control Document
SAC Scientific Advisory Committee
SAD safety assessment document
SANS small-angle neutron scattering
SAR safety analysis report
SBMS Standards-Based Management System
SC 1. Office of Science (DOE)
2. Superconducting
SCADA Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition
SCC 1. Side Correction Coils
2. Super Conducting Conductor
SCD single-crystal diffraction
SCFM standard cubic foot per minute
SCHe Super-conducting Helium
SCS Supervisory Control System
SDC Structural design criteria
SEC Magnet Electrical and Superconducting Design Criteria
SEH-P Safety Environment and Health Plan
SEHG Safety Environmental and Health Group
SEMP Systems Engineering Management Plan
SF 1. square feet
2. Safety Files (acc. to French Law)
SF6 Sulfur Hexa-fluoride
SFC Sequential Function Chart
SGVS Service Guard Vacuum System

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She Supercritical Helium

SHEX Supercritical Helium flow heat exchanger
SI Système International (International Standards)
SIC 1. Safety Importance Class
2. Safety Importance Component
SIL safety integrity level
SIS Safety-Instrumented System
SJ Shop Joint
SK South Korea
SL Support loads
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
SLDS Service Leak Detection System
SLE Seismic Load Event
SLOT_NUT Hexagon Slotted Nut
Sn Sector number (eg. Sector 4 = S4)
SN 1. single null (divertor)
2. splitting network
SNS Spallation Neutron Source
SOB start of burn
SO-ECH Start of ECH
SOF Start-of-current Flat Top
SOF/B Start of Flat Top Burn
SOH Start of Heating
SOL Scrape off layer
SOW statement of work
SPEC 1. Spectrometer, Spectroscopy
2. Specification
SPI schedule performance index
SRD systems requirements document
SRNL Savannah River National Laboratory
SRS Service Roughing System
SS 1. stainless steel
2. safety system
3. Steady State
SSD Systems Specification Document
SSEPN Steady state electrical power network
SSPSS Steady State Power Supply System
STAC Science and Technology Advisory Committee
STD Standard
STM Short term maintenance

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STS 1. Short term standby

2. Support Thermal Shield
ST-VS Suppression Tank Vent System
SU startup
SUS Type of Austenitic stainless steel
SV schedule variance
S-VDS Service Vent Detritiation System
SVS Service Vacuum System
SWG Special Working Group
SYS System
T ton
T Tritium
TA 1. Task Agreement
2. Thermal Anchor
TAC Technical Advisory Committee
TAE Toroidal Alfven Eigenmode
TAG Technical Advisory Group
TBA to be assessed
TBC to be confirmed
TBD to be determined
TBM Test Blanket Module
TC Task Coordinator
TCM Technical Coordination Meeting (changed to CCB-configuration control board)
TCP/IP transfer control protocol/internet protocol
TCS Test and Conditioning State
TCWS Tokamak Cooling Water System
Te Electron Temperature
TEC total estimated cost
TEMP 1. Temperature
2. Temporary
TEP Tokamak Exhaust Processing
TF 1. Toroidal field
2. Test Facility
TFC Toroidal Field Coil
TFMC Toroidal Field Model Coil
TFTR Tokamak/Toroidal Fusion Test Reactor
TG Topical Group
TH 1. thermal hydraulic
2. technical hardware
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TIG 1. Tungsten Inert Gas

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2. Titanium Inert Gap (spot weld method)

TiN titanium nitride
TIP Toroidal Interferometer/Polarimeter
TLD Thermoluminecent Dosimeter (radiation badge)
TO Task Officer
TOC Table of Contents
TOF time of flight
TPC Total Project Cost
TPC total project cost
TR technical response
TS 1. Thermal Shield
2. Thomson scattering
3. Technical Specification – part maturity level
TSA Tokamak Structural Assessment and Seismic Analysis
TSC Thermal Shield Cryostat
TSCA Toxic Substances Control Act
TSD Technical Specification Document
TSR technical safety requirement
TSVV Thermal Shield Vacuum Vessel
TTS Transition thermal shield
TV Television
TVS Tokomak Vent System
TW tower water
UD Upper Port Duct
UHV Ultra High Vacuum
UKAEA United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
UNS Type of Stainless Steel
UP Upper Port
UPD Upper Port Duct
UPP Upper Port Plug
UPS uninterruptible power supply
URL uniform resource locator
US United States of America
US ITER US Contributions to ITER
USIPO US ITER Project Office
UT Ultrasonic testing
UV ultraviolet
VAR variance analysis report
VDE Vertical displacement event

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VDH Vacuum Design Handbook

VDS vent detritiation system
VIS_IRTV Visible Infra-Red Television
VLLW Very Low-level waste
VME versa module European (type of bus)
VNC Vertical Neutron Camera
VPCE vapor phase catalytic exchange
VPI Vacuum Pressure Impregnation
VPR Vacuum Pumping Room
VPS Vacuum Pumping Room
VS Vertical Shaft
VSWR voltage standing wave ratio
VTL vacuum transmission lines
VUV Vacuum Ultra Violet
VV Vacuum vessel
VVPSS Vacuum Vessel Pressure Suppression System
VVTS Vacuum Vessel Thermal Shield
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WCS Water Circulation System
WDS water detritiation system
WG Working Group (usually of the Design Review)
WNR weapons neutron research
WP work package
WTHL water thermal hydraulic loop
XLS Excel spreadsheet format - Microsoft
XPF X-Point Formation
XRCS X-ray Crystal Spectrocopy/spectrometer
XRCS-I X-ray Crystal Spectrometry - Imaging
XRCS-S X-ray Crystal Spectrometry - Survey
XUV Extreme UV

8/29/2008
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